The rupture between Jorge Vilda and the captains: challenge, half-truths and threats

• Maximum tension in Las Rozas The players of the national team ask the coach, Jorge Vilda, to leave

The appearance, first, of

, the coach, and of the captains, later, of the women's soccer team, has been really strange.

At this point, more or less everyone knows the story: the captains called

during the month of August to ask him to fire Vilda and this Monday, when they began training for two international matches, the same players told the face of Vilda himself who did not want him to continue in office (

, the first captain, has denied it, but that will come later).

Well, after knowing these facts (because they are facts), this Thursday was the first day that the protagonists spoke.

Separately, it is worth emphasizing.

First Vilda and then the captains.

Everyone with a funeral face.

The coach appeared first with a clear message: "I feel deeply hurt by the way [the players] proceeded. The laws of sport have been transgressed: the first law that what happens in the locker room stays in the locker room" , he announced at the beginning, accusing, therefore, of the leaks to the soccer players, something that they would later deny (with very few arguments, things as they are, because the leaks, at least the initial ones, start more from their side).

The technician is not only hurt.

He is angry, and like any human being, he values ​​how to respond to what he considers to be an unwarranted attack.

So much so that he avoided answering a direct question: will he continue to trust the captains?

.

Clearer, water.

By the way, if anyone had any doubts about whether he intends to continue, he did not.

"I feel stronger than ever to continue working. Of course we can improve, but I feel the support of the Federation and that's important," said the coach, who was asked if his curriculum, certainly discreet, was valid to lead this team: "The first thing I want to highlight is the quality of the coaching staff that this team has. People of the highest level with whom we work every day in training, planning... in which each one gives the best in their field and I wouldn't trade for any of them."

Well that, yes it is.

Shortly after, the captains appeared.

Irene Paredes,

and

, all with a funeral face bigger than that of their coach, which is saying something.

The leader, Irene, took the floor: "First of all, I wanted to clarify that the players have never asked for Jorge's dismissal. The captains, on behalf of the group, have conveyed to Jorge and the Federation the feeling of the players. We have transmitted information. Then there have been a lot of leaks that don't do any good."

Beyond the fact that the leaks do come out of the group of players, the most striking thing about the words of the soccer players was their lack of precision.

They were asked directly what they didn't like about the coach.

Guijarro answers: "It's a general malaise of the team, of what we have all experienced and felt during the European Championship. We all think that we have a group with which we can achieve great titles, and that is why it was decided to express the group's message, because at In the end, we think it's something important".

Translated: they think they have the potential to win Euro Cups and World Cups and it is Jorge Vilda who does not know how to take them to those goals.

Neither Jenni Hermoso was much more specific: "We are defending our team. We

.

But we are quite professional, and when the player enters the field, she doesn't think about anything else". "We wanted to convey that we are a super ambitious team and that people want to improve, win.

We think that some internal aspects can be changed and that is why we talk to him [with the coach].

Sometimes you have to say things even if they are not pleasant for them to change". One last sentence: "We know that there are going to be modifications and that we are going to try to change the situation.

We have already done what we had to do," said Irene. Those modifications can go in many directions.

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